H.G. Wells and All Things Russian

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A study of Wells's interest in Russian culture and development and the influence of his work on Russia and the Soviet Union.

H. G. Wells and All Things Russian examines Wells's keen interest in Russian culture and development, and how Russia and the Soviet Union were, in turn, profoundly influenced by his works and his visits to the country.

'A highly readable series of essays examining H. G. Wells's influence on and importance to Russians and vice versa.' Jonathan Stoye FRS, The Francis Crick Institute, and Great-Grandson of H. G. Wells

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The book reminds us of the contingency of the personal passions and antipathies which shape cultural exchange. H. G. Wells and All Things Russian takes its place in the burgeoning field of recent scholarship on Anglo-Russian relations, a field to which its editor has already made so many significant contributions. H. G. Wells and All Things Russian, Reviewed by P. R. Bullock, Slavonic and East European Review, 99, no. 2, April 2021, 341-342

A highly readable series of essays examining H. G. Wellss influence on and importance to Russians and vice versa.
Jonathan Stoye FRS, The Francis Crick Institute, and Great-Grandson of H. G. Wells

Given the overall high quality of all contributions and their stimulating analyses, this volume will be welcome by Wells scholars and students alike. It will be also of interest to everyone studying comparative literature, science fiction, and twentieth-century British-Russian cultural encounters. Alexandra Smith, The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society, 43 (2020), 115118."

Author Bio

Galya Diment is the Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA, where she teaches Russian and comparative literature. The author of The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf and Joyce (1994), Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel (1997, 2013) and A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky (2011, 2013), Diment has published more than fifty articles. In addition, she has edited/co-edited Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (1993), Goncharovs Oblomov: A Critical Companion (1998), MLA Approaches to Teaching Lolita (2008) and Katherine Mansfield and Russia (2017). Her articles have also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Magazine and New York Magazine.